Elizabeth Bucar in the Press
Stealing my religion: When does religious appreciation become appropriation?
Prof Liz Bucar, professor in religious ethics at Northeastern University and author of Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, joins today’s podcast.
Avoiding Curricular Pitfalls of Study Abroad
Liz Bucar is a professor of religion and Dean’s Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University and author of Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation.
More mainstream retailers are offering Ramadan goods
“There was a strategic move of these corporations to tap into the buying power of the (Muslim) community that they’ve been kind of ignoring for a while,” said Liz Bucar, religious ethicist at Northeastern University in Boston and author of “Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation.”
Balaclavas Are Trendy, but for Some Muslim Women It’s More Complicated
Elizabeth Bucar, a professor of religion at Northeastern University and the author of “Pious Fashion,” said that it was “marketed as a symbol of cosmopolitan chicness, even while Sikhs who wear turbans are subject to violence.”
Power Up: Trump wants masks to be a 2020 wedge issue. But Americans, including Republicans, support them.
“The meaning we give to these masks matter,” Liz Bucar, a professor of religion at Northeastern University, told our colleague Robin Givhan about society’s sartorial shift.
Masks are here to stay. And they’re quickly becoming a way to express ourselves.
“The question about face masks is how will they morally change us? To some extent the answer depends on our motivation for wearing them,” says Liz Bucar, a professor of religion at Northeastern University. “If you are wearing a mask to protect yourself from others, you are forming a habit of fear. Every time you […]
The Public Writing Life: the Venue, the Pitch, and the Fee
For insights on how to connect with editors, I reached out to Liz Bucar, a professor of philosophy and religion at Northeastern University and project lead of the Luce-funded Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion.
How Muslim women use fashion to exert political influence
Northeastern professor Elizabeth Bucar writes about the rebellious potential of an apparently conservative style.
Islamic style is showing up on catwalks, in mainstream stores, and on non-Muslim women
For most of the years of Elizabeth Bucar’s research, the fashion world barely noticed Muslim style and the style makers I studied. But now, the Northeastern professor sees pious fashion showing up on catwalks, in department stores and on non-Muslim women.
The fashionable woman in the Islamic attire
It may be that someone steeped in Islamic traditions would find Elizabeth Bucar’s exploration of style among Muslim women in Iran, Turkey and Indonesia simplistic. Indeed, the main message in her book, “Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress,” is quite basic: Fashion among Muslim women, whether they are fully cloaked in a chador or wearing […]
